Public health has its own bracket of champions: breakthroughs that eliminated deadly diseases, revolutionized surgery, and opened entirely new doors in medicine. From vaccines to mRNA technology, ...

Remember when the latest tech was a pedometer that counted your steps? Those days are long gone. Now, your workout gear can analyze muscle fatigue like a team of PhDs. Wearable sensors track your ...

Matthew Herper covers medical innovation — both its promise and its perils. It has been a tough year for medicine. The U.S. research enterprise has been scrambled by a series of political decisions ...

2025 had its ups and downs for many people, and you might understandably be ready to leave the year in your rearview mirror. Before moving on to the future though, it's worth looking back on some of ...

The past 12 months recorded several medical breakthroughs, including first-time gene therapy outcomes, notable FDA approvals and virtual healthcare delivery, ABC News reported Dec. 30. Here are seven ...

Scientists have unveiled a breakthrough way to turn natural gas—long burned as fuel—into valuable chemical building blocks ...

Live Science's health channel editor makes predictions about the medical breakthroughs and public health shifts to come in 2026. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine report in Science Advances a breakthrough in human norovirus (HuNoV) research. Norovirus is a leading cause of acute viral gastroenteritis worldwide with ...

The country’s research spending has seen exponential growth in the past 3 decades, reaching 3.9 trillion yuan ($568.6 billion) in 2025 in current yuan, an 8.1% increase over the previous year, and ...

If you’re scrolling through this story on a smartphone, you’re holding a product that harnesses one of the boldest investments the United States ever made into science. In 1947, researchers at Bell ...